PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 1093

contrary to law, for the good government of the town of Cam-
bridge, or that may be necessary and proper to promote and pre-
serve the health of the town and the people thereof, and to
protect and safeguard the town generally and every section and
part of it, and to protect and safeguard the property belonging
to the town as a corporate body and the property of the resi-
dents thereof and also to protect and safeguard persons who are
not residents and the property of such non-residents while they
or their property are within said town; to forbid and prevent
nuisances, to define and describe what shall be a nuisance and
to declare any existing thing within said town or within a
radius of one mile of the corporate limits thereof, to be a nui-
sance which prejudices or is liable to prejudice the health of
the people thereof, or of any considerable number of the same,
and to prescribe and appoint means for removing any nuisance
or nuisances, and to enforce the use of such means, and to pre-
scribe penalties for a refusal or failure to remove any nuisance
after the commissioners have ordered the removal thereof; to
prevent and remove all nuisances and obstructions from the
streets, lanes and alleys and from lots adjoining streets or other
places within the limits of said city; to restrain all disorder,
disturbances, annoyances, disorderly conduct and drunkenness
therein; to prevent breaches of the day called Sunday, so as to
forbid traffic, barter and sale in all commodities, except medi-
cines, and to prohibit gambling, unseemly amusements, games,
exhibitions and entertainments, and to prescribe penalties for
violations of the ordinance or ordinances passed in the matter
of the premises; to suppress street-walkers and bawdy houses;
to prevent firing of guns, cannon, pistols, rifles, sling-shots,
fire-crackers or other fire-works or other explosives therein; to
suppress fires and prevent the dangers thereof; to establish and
maintain a fire department; to regulate the erection or repair-
ing of buildings and grant permits therefor, specifying the
material of which the same shall be built and purpose for which
the same is to be used; to direct in what part of the city
wooden buildings shall not be erected; to provide for taking
down and removing any buildings of wood erected in any part
or section of the town, in violation of an ordinance wherein
the erection of buildings of wood are forbidden, and for taking
down and removing any buildings erected without a permit first
had and obtained from the commissioners; to provide for the
establishment of a building line for the erection of buildings on
the streets, lanes and alleys and thoroughfares of said town; to
order the taking down and removal of any building or house
deemed dangerous and unsafe and to direct the taking down